La Cappadocia ellenistica sotto gli Ariaratidi ca. 250-100 a.C.

The Ariarathes dynasty in Asia Minor presents distinctive characteristics. Though tied to the Persian legacy, which still showed numerous traces in the early Imperial Age, above all in the persistence of certain cults, the Ariarathes dynasty opened their kingdom to Hellenism. Silvia Panichi’s monograph sketches out a portrait of Cappadocia, striking a balance between illustrating political and military events, rotating around the courts, and the original traits of a region poised between Iranism and Hellenism.